He Came to Bring Us Home

He Came to Bring Us Home

There is a Home that is truly our home. And the Father in that home bends all His energy to make possible our taking up residence there. Permanently. It really is that simple. It is simple, but it is also somewhat involved—because life there is so rich. This is not...
Three Ideas for a Richer Christmas Celebration

Three Ideas for a Richer Christmas Celebration

There is a specific virtue of running a household well. For me, discovering it was one of the great fruits of studying ancient and medieval thinking. According to Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, “domestic prudence” arranges everything in one’s home life toward the true...
Carrying the Dead with Us at Christmas

Carrying the Dead with Us at Christmas

It is not an accident that Christmas makes us think of times gone by, and especially of people gone by. Perhaps we experience this as a sort of cruel twist as we get older. We might wonder why it can’t be like it was before, when ‘everyone’ was there. There is much...
Christmas Rituals in the Face of Personal Loss

Christmas Rituals in the Face of Personal Loss

*Special Message, followed by Reflection: Please consider contributing today to our Beginning at Home campaign. See below for a video message from Sofia and me, and Click to help us reach our goal, so we can reach more people with LifeCraft! Thank you!* ~ ~ Those who...
A Bright Lesson from Christmas Depression

A Bright Lesson from Christmas Depression

“But a natural desire cannot be in vain.” Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae For those of us with some length of life experience, Christmas comes to be associated with suffering—whether our own or that of others we know. Christmas depression is proverbial, and it is...

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